Dear Super Smart Flex Developer Mailing List, We are currently having major issues processing a dataset that is essential for our skunkworks web site. The dataset is stored as JSON, consists of 5000 records, and has numerous strings. It is 1.4mb uncompressed / 85kb compressed. Processing the data, which involves creating a custom object to hold it, currently takes a much as 60 seconds.
We are in the process of attacking this beast to make it run faster, and we are considering the following approaches: 1. Create an index for repetitive strings within the dataset to avoid repetitive strings because integer assignment is faster than string assignment (we assume). 2. Try substituting XML for JSON (no idea if this would be faster or not). 3. Attempt to deliver an actionscript binary blob to the application from PHP (not even sure if that's possible... ASON?). 4. Create a compiled swf with our data postprocessed and attempt to access it (again, not sure if that's possible). 5. <insert your solution here> Your expert, snarky, helpful advice is much appreciated, Tom
